#42 James Suckling Top 100 Wines of the World 2025
In spite of its extreme youth, this great Chateuneuf-du-Pape leaps out at you with its depth of wet-earth, ripe red-berry and dried-flower aromas. Rich and concentrated, but so suave and refined. Incredible length! Can't wait to taste this masterpiece as a bottled wine! - 98pts James Suckling
The classic 2023 Châteauneuf Du Pape checks in as 70% Grenache, 15% Mourvèdre, and 15% Syrah raised all in foudre. It's another incredibly classic wine from this domaine that has beautiful red fruit (cherries, framboise) as well as a mineral-laced array of garrigue, sappy flowers, and crushed stone. With medium to full-bodied richness, a pure, elegant mouthfeel, and building tannins, it will benefit from 2-4 years of bottle age and have two decades of overall longevity. - 95pts Jeb Dunnuck
A structured version, with muscular tannins upholding crunchy red fruit and plum, plus an enticing perfume of smoke and flowers. Graphite underpinnings carry this through the full-bodied finish, which is still tightly wound; give this time to unfurl and you will be rewarded. Grenache, Mourvèdre, Syrah and Cinsault. - 94pts Wine Spectator
The 2023 Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau is going to turn heads for a long time to come. Pronounced violets, wild strawberries and melted licorice mingle with blackberry and garrigueon the complex aromatic profile. Alluring, concentrated and superbly structured through polished tannins, the full-bodied 2023 is such a gorgeous Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau. - 94pts Vinous
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Since 1891, Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe has stood among France’s great wine estates. In Bédarrides, within the celebrated south-eastern corner of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Henri Brunier gifted his son Hippolyte a parcel of La Crau land, then deemed uncultivable. Undeterred, Hippolyte planted vines on this historic plateau, whose roots trace back to the 14th century. Jules, his son, expanded the estate and named it “Vieux Télégraphe”, honoring the optical telegraph once installed there.
